© 2004-2012 Rebecca Bollwitt – Miss604.com. If you are not reading this via official Miss604 channels, this content is being reproduced without permission. Summertime when I was growing up meant family camping trips. We’d pack up our van, head across BC, pitch our tents, and swim in lakes. It seems harder and harder to “get [...]

© 2004-2012 Rebecca Bollwitt – Miss604.com. If you are not reading this via official Miss604 channels, this content is being reproduced without permission. Craving more local playoff hockey? The AHL Abbotsford Heat are in the middle of the second round of Calder Cup playoffs and they’re currently on an 11-game winning streak. 2011 Abbotsford Heat. [...]

© 2004-2012 Rebecca Bollwitt – Miss604.com. If you are not reading this via official Miss604 channels, this content is being reproduced without permission. The Tulips of the Valley Festival in Agassiz is in full swing with more colours popping from millions of bulbs on Seabird Island. When I visited a few years ago, there were [...]

BC Teachers are on strike today. Kids across the province are out of school while our teachers aim to resolving issues concerning the bill that will go about stripping their rights once again. I’m sad that this affects our boys education but we here at R & R support our BC Teachers. The government needs [...]

We all knew it was coming, and the ballots are in and the focus is on getting what our kids need and what our teachers need, and we here at rantsnrascals.com have our opinions on this. Though we want to know what your opinions are as well. So don’t forget to tell us below before [...]

 
The BC Teachers association has applied to the Labor Relations Board for permission to do an 8 day strike, and kids could see themselves on the outside of the classroom as early as Friday if mediation and an agreement doesn’t come swiftly.
I don’t like the idea of the teachers striking. It means my kids are [...]

© 2004-2011 Rebecca Bollwitt – Miss604.com. If you are not reading this via official Miss604 channels, this content is being reproduced without permission. McBarge, the famous floating McDonald’s restaurant from Expo86, is set to reopen. The vessel has been moored in Burrard Inlet for about the last twenty years but following an approval from Mission [...]

Welcome to Wordless Wednesday!
 

Or (Wordful) Wednesday, pictures with few words.  I say few because I can’t just post pictures and not write something.  This week the focus is on the weather.
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The Mayor of Abbotsford Bruce Banman is ready to stand up for the citizens of Abbotsford, those of us coughing, suffering with more health issues than anyone I know, hardly already [...]

You can’t help but notice them. You are driving down the street, night has fallen, and there they are, plain as day. Twinkling and blinking, calling out to you, come stop and look at me.
It’s one of the things I love most about the holidays.  Christmas lights everywhere, every time I turn around, see someone’s [...]

At the beginning of December 2010, 61 First Nations signed the Save the Fraser Declaration. The declaration states that the Nations of the Fraser River Watershed in B.C. will not allow the pipelines or similar tar sands projects to cross their lands. …

Every morning it’s like clock work for FD and I.  We get the boys up for school.  Eat breakfast.  Make lunches and get them out the door and then FD comes home and we watch our shows.
Morning shows consist of (now don’t laugh) we’re older – Breakfast Television, Regis and Kelly (since Rege is leaving) [...]

© 2004-2011 Rebecca Bollwitt – Miss604.com. If you are not reading this via official Miss604 channels, this content is being reproduced without permission. The Fraser Valley Bald Eagle Festival takes place this weekend in the Harrison region. The schedule is filled with special events at the Kilby Historic Site, Sandpiper Golf Resort, entertainment, and of [...]

© 2004-2011 Rebecca Bollwitt – Miss604.com. If you are not reading this via official Miss604 channels, this content is being reproduced without permission. The 4th annual West Coast Christmas Show and Marketplace returns to the Tradex in Abbotsford, December 2nd to 4th. Photos courtesy: Middle Child Marketing The presentation stage will feature local chefs, the [...]

Aside from the political crap this season with AMHA (Abbotsford Minor Hockey Association) has brought to us parents. This is JJ’s third year playing ice hockey and each time I watch him I get goose bumps.  He’s really improving.
This time we went out to Chilliwack, Twin Rinks.  I sometimes don’t like it because of the [...]

Politics is always something that seems to come into play where sports are concerned.  I just never imagined that it would be at the Pee Wee House Level for Abbotsford Minor Hockey.
Our son JJ plays house hockey for AMHA and over the past few days our email box has been flooded with outrageous emails of [...]

© 2004-2011 Rebecca Bollwitt – Miss604.com. If you are not reading this via official Miss604 channels, this content is being reproduced without permission. The West Coast Women’s Show, the ultimate entertainment, beauty, and health expo, returns to Tradex in Abbotsford next week. Show highlights this year include HGTV’s Colin & Justin in the celebrity speaker [...]

About the Starlight Foundation Canada (Press Release)
For more than 20 years Starlight Children’s Foundation has been dedicated to improving the quality of life for children with chronic and life-threatening illnesses and life-altering injuries. Through a broad array of in-patient, out-patient and online resources, Starlight works hard to support seriously ill children and their families from [...]

There is nothing worse than a sick child.  As a mom to a special needs child, we relied on donations, support and caring people to help aid all the folks at Children’s Hospital to help our son Trace the first three years of his life as he continued to struggle through things.
Most events and donations [...]

Clifford Robert Olson, one of the most notorious serial killers in Canadian history is days away from breathing in his last breath, and frankly it brings relief to his victims families who after a decades of suffering are glad to see Olson dying.
Ols0n has Cancer that has metastasized and is days away from death.  At [...]